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ONCE A GUSTIE, ALWAYS A GUSTIE GUSTIES FOR LIFE

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS CELEBRATION Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Alumni Association Alumni Association Awards Celebration

Welcome Thomas W. Young ’88 Vice President for Advancement

Alumni Association Welcome Mike Bussey ’69 President, Alumni Association Board of Directors

Alumni Association Awards Angela Erickson ’01 Director, Alumni and Parent Engagement First Decade Award Gilles Ouedraogo ’10 Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Silver Anniversary Award Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Golden Anniversary Award Dennis Lofgren ’70 Distinguished Alumni Citation Cathy Carlson ’76 Ardena Flippin ’68 Heidi Kennedy Manning ’90 Arlene Waxlax Sonday ’54

Greater Gustavus Award The Gustavus Faculty

Presidential Remarks and Closing Rebecca M. Bergman CLASS OF 2020 AWARDEES

First Decade Award First presented in 1968, the First Decade Award was established to recognize two individuals for early professional achievement by graduates of the 10th anniversary class. Criteria appropriate to selection shall include the difficulty of accomplishment; quality, creativity, and distinctiveness of performance; recognition by professional peers; and lasting contribution to the world of ideas and affairs.

Gilles Ouedraogo ’10 Having received his master’s from the University of Minnesota in public affairs, Gilles is currently a Monitoring Officer for the Great Green Wall Accelerator at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), managing data streams for countries in the Sahel region of Africa attempting to stop the Sahara desert from advancing. He lives in Bonn, Germany.

Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Working toward her MPPA from Northwestern University, Amber is the director for public policy at Minnesota Farm Bureau. She leads the public policy team representing nearly 30,000 Minnesota farming families at the state and federal levels.

Silver and Golden Anniversary Awards The Anniversary Award recognizes one graduate from the silver anniversary year and one from the golden anniversary year for outstanding and exceptional career achievement.

Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Elisabeth is professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her practice includes pediatric pulmonology and pediatric palliative care, and she is involved in clinical care, research, education, and program administration. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School with a residency at Harvard in a combined program in internal medicine and pediatrics, followed by a fellowship in pediatric pulmonology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dennis Lofgren ’70 Dennis is a former producer, writer, and director for both documentary and reality television shows. His documentaries covered wide-ranging topics, such as death and dying (Can’t It Be Anyone Else?/ABC), child sexual abuse (Beyond The Secret/HBO), and reality competitions (Survivor/CBS).

Distinguished Alumni Citation (continued on next page) The Distinguished Alumni Citation celebrates outstanding and exceptional career achievement of graduates of the College. Criteria appropriate to selection shall include the difficulty of accomplishment; quality, creativity, and distinctiveness of performance; recognition by peers; and lasting contribution to the world of ideas and affairs. Humanitarian achievements may also be weighed.

Cathy Carlson ’76 Currently the chair of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, Cathy was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in October 2018. CLASS OF 2020 AWARDEES

Ardena Flippin ’68 Holding a medical degree from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Chicago Executive program, Ardena spent most of her career as the senior attending emergency medicine physician for Cook County Bureau of Health Services. She currently has her own business called FlippinonHealth.com, where she develops health and wellness programs for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Heidi Kennedy Manning ’90 Heidi holds a PhD in physics and is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. She was a visiting research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in 2006 and again in 2012–13.

Arlene Waxlax Sonday ’54 A long-time educator, Arlene is the author of the widely used Sonday System, a comprehensive line of materials designed to help educators provide multisensory reading instruction to students from pre-K through 8th grade reading levels. She has also served as vice president of the International Dyslexia Association and trained more than 40,000 teachers to increase student achievement.

Greater Gustavus Award The Greater Gustavus Award is the highest award given by the Gustavus Alumni Association. It is awarded to those “who by deed, have notably advanced and aided Gustavus Adolphus College.”

The Gustavus Faculty During the spring semester of 2020, with the situation in flux due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College’s faculty transitioned to online teaching with only two weeks of preparation to allow students to complete their courses away from campus, doing so with the agility of expert teachers and a careful attention to student needs. Thanks to their commitment, students remained on track in their degree programs and members of the Class of 2020 earned their diplomas. Put simply: the faculty saved the 2019–2020 academic year.

GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

GACAC Service Award Susan Alexis ’71 Claire Hobart ’35 Mary Nelson ’61 Steven Anderson ’87 Rev. Gerald Hoffman ’59 Marjorie Knudson Olson ’42 Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi ’00 Mary Ellen Torsden Kitundu ’65 Robert Olson ’41 Nathan Dahlke ’02 Joanna Lundgren Kuehn Engstrom ’64 Ellen Ruiters ’97 Travis Dahlke ’00 Rev. Joseph Larson ’79 Rev. James Wiberg ’61 Daniel Dewey ’93 Dennis Lofstrom ’51 Jean Bjorling Young ’70 Donn Escher ’50 Mark Monson ’76 Bernadette Galvin ’57 Rev. Thomas Neilson ’73 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

Honorary Gustie Elaine Brostrom Willis Lindquist Larry Taylor Tom Brown George Malkasian Thalia Taylor Judy Douglas Mary Ellen Malkasian Ann Volk Sue Gray Bob Moline Ken Westphal Philly Kauffmann Doug Nimmo Margi Willmert Joanne Kendall Todd Prafke Warren Wunderlich

First Decade Award Steve Andreasen ’84 Asitha Jayawardena ’09 Norman Quinn ’71 Tom Annesley ’75 Abby Arthur Johnson ’63 Beverly Rathcke ’67 Liesl Batz ’90 Dan Johnson ’64 Kirsten Tollefson Rockwell ’92 Luke Benoit ’04 Cindy Zaine Karos ’83 Allison Rosati ’85 Jeanne Bauleke Blake ’75 Talmadge King ’70 Dorea Ruggles ’06 Mike Bland ’02 Pat Kirtland ’88 Colleen Seifert ’80 Annette Boman ’88 Kevin Kling ’79 Amit Shah ’92 Amy Brown ’02 Deanna Koepp ’93 Kirsten Cullen Sharma ’01 Bruce Carlson ’59 Rebecca Konrad ’96 Jason Smerdon ’98 Karen Halvorson Carlson ’61 Cy Kruse ’60 Brian Smith ’00 Scott Dee ’81 Ben Levy ’07 Jennifer Pleuss Spande ’97 Jerome Del Pino ’68 Thomas Lindell ’63 Anita Stauffer ’69 Jacinto dos Santos Rocha ’93 Luther Luedtke ’65 Semonti Mustaphi Stephens ’03 Cheryl Downey ’66 Greg Lupfer ’69 Debby Becker Stone ’82 Woody Ediger ’80 Mike Marcotte ’08 Steven Stratton ’90 Kurt Elling ’89 Milo Martin ’96 Hans Sviggum ’03 Kim Erickson ’76 Debbie Lightly Mascaro ’95 Matt Swenson ’06 Patty Mertz Esswein ’78 Mikka McCracken ’09 Deborah Jean Templin ’73 Gloria Floreen ’68 James McPherson ’58 Joyce Tesarek ’72 Paul Fraser ’05 Krista Cruse Meierbachtol ’07 Bob Therien ’66 Chester Fuller ’72 Emily King Meserve ’04 Mark Thomsen ’78 Nathan Funk ’94 Nan Mizuhata ’71 Tom Toftey ’67 Roberta Anderson Gardner ’58 Jeanette Palmquist Momot ’62 Christine Torborg ’00 Amber Hanson Glaeser ’10 Brian Mueller ’87 Tammy Williams VanDeGrift ’99 Joe Gaugler ’95 Kristi Multhaup ’87 Floie Vane ’59 Dennie Gordon ’74 Deanna Nelson ’64 Stacy Vezina ’91 Susan Haddox ’94 Brian North ’99 Jim Wade ’86 Paul Hanson ’61 Chad Olinger ’85 Patricia Walker ’77 Steve Heitzeg ’82 Gilles “Gee” Ouedraogo ’10 Bob Warner ’76 Thomas Hietala ’74 Lee Pedersen ’70 Rick Webb ’73 Alex Hill ’97 Marlyce Pedersen ’65 Esther Mulder Widmalm-Delphonse ’08 John Himle ’77 Patricia Pellikka ’79 Muriel Woods ’60 Philip Hotchkiss ’91 Paul Peterson ’62 Kelly Younge ’05 Sharon Pridal Hunt ’81 Tim Peterson ’83 Lori Lackman Zeman ’84 Andra Ibrahim-Duncan ’86 Jon Poole ’01 Miho Ihara ’98 Angela Witt Prehn ’89 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

Silver and Golden Anniversary Awards Warren Beck ’67 Edward Gustavson ’66 Marta Hemmingson VanBeek ’93 Elisabeth Potts Dellon ’95 Dennis Lofgren ’70 Gracie Vargas ’94 Jerome King Del Pino ’68 Mary Ellen Tordsen Kitundu ’66 Eric Espeland ’92 Klaus Sitte ’69

Distinguished Alumni Citation (continued on next page) Nola Aalberts ’63 Edgar Carlson ’30 Arnold Gruber ’38 Dean Abrahamson ’55 Martin Carlson ’32 Milton Gustafson ’61 Vince Abrahamson ’39 Norm Carlson ’55 Melvin Hammarberg ’33 Sydney Ahlstrom ’41 Roger Carlson ’54 Paul Hanson ’61 Mary Nielsen Allan ’65 Gerald Christianson ’55 David Hauck ’53 Louis Almen ’46 Earl Clasen ’39 Harold Hegstrom ’23 Leonall Andersen ’49 Ailene Cole ’36 Steve Heitzeg ’82 Barry Anderson ’76 Paul Cole ’79 Charles Hendrickson ’57 Dennis Anderson ’59 Kelly Coleman ’79 Michael Hendrickson ’64 Evelyn Olson Anderson ’29 Charles Curtis ’43 Marcy Rhyne Herr ’57 Herbert Anderson ’58 Nancy Johnson Dahl ’83 Alrick Hertzman 1919 Milton Anderson ’36 Howard Davis ’49 George Hicks ’75 Ray Anderson ’39 Scott Dee ’81 David Hilding ’51 Richard Anderson ’38 David DeMets ’66 Rick Hillstrom ’38 Steve Andreasen ’84 Dick DeRemee ’55 Howard Holcomb ’49 John Annextad ’56 Barb Seeley Devlin ’69 Dwight Holcombe ’51 Dave Arlander ’63 Cheryl Downey ’66 Bill Holm ’65 Nancy Adolphson Baker ’56 Hiram Drache ’47 Kenneth Holmquist ’33 Esther Anderson Beck ’28 Kenneth Dragseth ’67 Linda Gulder Huett ’66 Jack Bergman ’69 James Dye ’49 Kay Nord Hunt ’77 Wilton Bergstrand ’30 Adolph Eberhart 1895 William Hyllengren ’34 Ivy Schutz Bernhardson ’73 Marion Edman ’26 Linneus Idstrom ’28 John Biewen ’83 Norris Ekstrom ’49 Mary Bradford Ivey ’63 Mike Blaese ’61 Mark Elfstrom ’01 Wilma Westburg Jensen ’38 Aldrich Bloomquist ’43 Kurt Elling ’89 Buzz Johanson ’59 Suzanne Boda ’82 Walter Englund 1911 Marietta Bittrich Johns ’63 Paul Boman ’15 Steven Epp ’80 Amandus Johnson 1904 Evelyn Bonander ’59 Frances Erickson ’36 Arthur Johnson ’36 Roger Boraas ’48 Ralph Erickson ’35 Craig Johnson ’69 Alfred Borneman ’26 Ray Erickson ’41 David Johnson ’54 Sharon Anthony Bower ’54 David Esbjornson ’75 Ed Johnson ’39 William Brekke ’74 Neil Fenske ’69 Glen Johnson ’50 James Breneman ’43 Ardena Flippin ’68 Hjalmar Johnson 1917 Lawrence Brings ’20 John Floreen ’65 Marlys Johnson Johnson ’58 Bob Brown ’83 James Ford ’53 Padre Johnson ’56 Dick Brubacher ’54 Carol Hoorn Fraser ’51 Paula Johnson ’76 Gerhard Bundlie 1911 Frank Gamelin ’38 Russell Johnson ’31 Mike Bussey ’69 Keith Garlid ’56 Ruth Erickson Johnson ’41 Eric Butorac ’03 Clint Gass ’41 Wally Johnson ’42 Marcia Bystrom ’86 Jim Gilbert ’62 Margaret Anderson Kelliher ’90 Bruce Carlson ’59 Paul Granlund ’52 Holger Kilander ’22 Cathy Carlson ’76 Ian Grant ’91 Talmadge King ’70 Don Carlson ’51 William Green ’72 Kevin Kling ’79 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

Jim Knapp ’56 Cathy Nelson ’74 Patsy O’Connell Sherman ’52 Peter Krause ’87 David Nelson ’56 Brett Smith ’84 Mary Ann Kristiansen ’85 Deanna Nelson ’64 Arlene Waxlax Sonday ’ 54 Carolyn Kruger ’64 Kirk Nelson ’71 Ade Sponberg ’58 Donald Kull ’42 Lois Anderson Nelson ’60 Harold Sponberg ’40 Per Langsjoen ’43 Mary Nelson ’61 Ray Sponberg ’37 Judy Kaeding Larsen ’64 Paul Nelson ’41 Leland Stark ’32 Jean Larson ’54 Ruth Youngdahl Nelson ’24 Bud Swanson ’35 Roger Larson ’51 Theodore Nelson ’27 Don Swanson ’55 Richard Leider ’66 Paul Noren ’31 Reuben Swanson ’42 Barbara Berry Leonard ’63 Ray Norling ’56 David Swenson ’57 Harold LeVander ’32 Enid Martell Olson ’40 Wendell Swenson ’42 Pete LeVander ’37 James Olson ’46 Paul Swensson ’28 Theodor LeVander ’31 Otto Olson ’42 Paul Thompson ’61 Phil Lindau ’58 Ove Olson 1918 Mark Thomsen ’78 George Lindbeck ’43 Ray Olson ’60 S.O. Thorlaksson, 1913 John Lindbeck ’37 Robert Olson ’38 George Torrey ’55 Richard Lindholm ’35 Marcia Page ’82 Arthur Toupin ’43 James Lobdell ’71 Daniel Palm ’48 Louis Towley ’25 Lars Lofgren ’58 Arthur Pearson ’30 Judith Hanson Turnlund ’58 Diane Kolander Loomer ’62 Patricia Pellikka ’79 Francis Uhler ’24 Luther Luedtke ’65 Reginald Penner ’80 Victor Valgren 1905 Niels Lumholdt ’52 Jim Peterson ’64 Floie Vane ’59 Dale Lund ’40 Osler Peterson ’34 Lloyd Volling ’31 S.E. Lund ’25 Paul Peterson ’94 Jim Wade ’86 Dick Lundborg ’55 Norman Quinn ’71 Lois Walfrid Johnson ’58 Earl Madsen ’41 Jerry Raedeke ’63 Patricia Walker ’77 Clarence Magney 1903 Magnus Ranstorp ’85 Susan Walker ’75 Paul Magnuson ’59 Lowell Rasmussen ’48 Linda Wallenberg ’75 Heidi Kennedy Manning ’90 Red Rehwaldt ’52 Rick Webb ’73 Karl Mattson ’26 Arthur Renquist ’42 Chip Weseloh ’67 Dean McBride ’63 William Ritt, 1910 Trish Haugo Wheaton ’72 Doris Young McCulley ’69 Allison Rosati ’85 John Wirth ’75 Doug McMinn ’69 Karen Bossart Rusthoven ’66 Benjamin Youngdahl, ’20 James McPherson ’58 Elizabeth Gordon Sachs ’75 Luther Youngdahl, 1919 James Merrill ’51 Daniel Sandstedt ’38 Reuben Youngdahl ’31 William Michael, Jr. ’82 Glenn Schleede ’60 Walter Youngquist, 1916 Roy Miller ’46 Carl Seashore, 1891 Walter Youngquist ’42 Aaron Moen ’58 Harold Seashore ’29 Steve Zahn ’90 Christy Anderson Morse ’77 Sue Semple-Rowland ’77

Greater Gustavus Award (continued on next page) This is the highest award given by the Association, awarded to those “who by deed, have notably advanced and aided Gustavus Adolphus College.”

Gerhard Alexis Reynold Anderson ’34 Warren Beck ’67 Clyde Allen ’56 Sylvia Benzon Anderson ’36 Henry Benson 1893 Lois Madsen Allen ’59 Abbie Arthur ’31 Adeline Bernhardson Arthur Anderson Oscar Augustson ’20 Drell Bernhardson Evan Anderson Frank Barth Elaine Brostrom Mark Anderson ’66 Marge Barth Milt Brostrom ’49 GUSTAVUS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDEES

Greater Gustavus Award Ebba Edquist Carlson ’31 Alice Jackson Jaenson ’26 Jim Peterson ’64 Edgar Carlson ’30 Chester Johnson Owen Sammelson ’58 Ernest Carlton Dennis Johnson ’60 Ruth Schaefer Corinne Chilstrom Edgar Johnson C. Sjostrand 1903 Herbert Chilstrom Ethel Jorgensen Johnson ’31 Florence Sponberg ’37 Cec Eckhoff ’56 Hobart Johnson ’21 Ray Sponberg ’37 Philip Eckman 1917 Marian Swanson Johnson ’41 Axel Steuer Richard Elvee Ruth Nelson Johnson ’20 Bud Swanson ’35 Lloyd Engelsma John Kendall ’49 Emil Swenson Evelyn Erickson Leonard Kendall Bob Swiggum ’60 Vernon Erickson Melva Lind Gretchen Taylor F.W. Olin Foundation Phil Lindau ’58 David Tilderquist 1894 Friends of the Linnaeus Arboretum Edward Lindell Paul Tillquist ’63 Tom Gover Patty Lindell George Torrey ’55 Edna Spaeth Granlund ’50 Dave Lindenberg ’53 Bertha Almen Vickner 1910 Paul Granlund ’52 Henry Linner 1902 Ken Westphal Bruce Gray ’61 Patricia Lund Barb Wilkinson Sue Gray Ray Lundquist ’51 Steve Wilkinson Bernice Gustavson Jan Ledin Michaletz ’74 Warren Wunderlich Herbert Gustavson Russ Michaletz ’74 Anita Thomsen Young ’77 Gustavus Library Associates Maury Moe ’29 Evelyn Sponberg Young ’33 The Gustavus Faculty Jack Ohle Jon Young ’77 The Gustavus Volunteer Kris Ohle Walter Youngquist 1916 Roy Hendrickson ’26 Bob Peterson ’58 Walter Youngquist ’42 Rick Hillstrom ’38 Conrad Peterson ’33 Lee Jaeger Susan Pepin Peterson ’65

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

The Alumni Association is the collective body of Gustavus graduates and former students, counting more than 28,000 members. Each alumnus/a is a lifetime member of the Association due to their time on “the Hill” and is encouraged to be a Gustie for Life—connected with the College, its mission, and its legacy.

The Alumni Association Board of Directors is the strategic planning group that serves on behalf of the Alumni Association and its members to advise and support the central mission of Gustavus—preparing students through a liberal arts undergraduate education for lives of leadership and service in society. The Board’s strategic committees include: communication, recognition, philanthropy, and programming.